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:: Web Services and SOA News - September, 2008 ::


ABC's Of BPM

Some technology terms come and go fleetingly. Remember push technology? Others, like Business Process Management or Service-Oriented Architecture

Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008





SOA Governance: Balancing Process and Agility

Information systems are complex and keeping them aligned with business needs and objectives has proven to be very challenging

Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008





Industry Giants Unite to Deliver Mobile Broadband Future

GSMA partners with leading companies to deliver range of ready to run, easy to use Mobile Broadband devices

Posted: Monday, September 29, 2008





Update to Microsoft Virtual Earth, VE Web Services and Maps for Mobile Devices

Good news from the VE Blog about release 6.2... it's here along with version 1.0 of the Virtual Earth Web Services.

Posted: Monday, September 29, 2008





Here to serve

BACK WHEN THE World Wide Web was just getting started, creating Web space on one of your own servers was close to impossible.

Posted: Monday, September 29, 2008





CICS and Web services: Ready to go

It was inevitable that CICS' support of Web services got covered.

Posted: Monday, September 29, 2008





Oracle Application Integration Architecture targets telcos

Oracle continues to expand its Application Integration Architecture (AIA), which provides a Web services-based framework

Posted: Monday, September 29, 2008





Five Reasons to Start a SOA Technology Company Now

There are huge opportunities today, as long as you make the right moves

Posted: Saturday, September 27, 2008





Governance: The Last Mile of SOA

So what exactly is SOA governance, why is it important, and what needs should it address?

Posted: Saturday, September 27, 2008





Impact of Microsoft IE8 and Google Chrome on LinkShare Tracking

I was reading the latest LinkShare newsletter, and was interested to see what the had to say about the effectiveness of their affiliate tracking

Posted: Friday, September 26, 2008





The impact of online self-service on the customer experience

It’s clear that web self-service hasn’t been the panacea it was sold as back in the 1990s.

Posted: Friday, September 26, 2008





Overcoming Obstacles in Implementing SOA

According to Jonathan Mack, SOA adoption is "not nearly as ubiquitous as many of the analyst organizations and webinar publishers

Posted: Friday, September 26, 2008





Google Moderator web service launched

A Google Engineer has used his 20% time at the office to develop this new web service named Google Moderator.

Posted: Friday, September 26, 2008





Companies See 18% Cost Decrease Using SOA

Best-in-Class organizations were 93% more likely to incorporate defect tracking and reporting tools to support their SOA governance initiative.

Posted: Friday, September 26, 2008





Model SOA Business Processes using BPMN with New Book from Packt

Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL is a new book from Packt that teaches users to transform BPMN to BPEL

Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2008





Best effort SOA and the SOA Quality Star

In one of ZapThink's recent Licensed ZapThink Architect courses for a US Department of Defense (DoD) contractor, we were discussing service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2008





Adobe Talks Open Source, Innovation and the Future of Flash

Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe talks with eWEEK about open-sourcing Flash, the new Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), mobile technology and more. Lynch also talks of competing with Microsoft Silverlight and Expression and possibly with Google Chrome.

Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2008





JSR 311 Final: Java API for RESTful Web Services

In February 2007, Sun announced JSR 311 : The Java API for RESTful Web services. Yesterday, the draft 1.0 specification

Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2008





Thomson Reuters Debuts Commercial Options for Its Calais Web Service to Meet Publisher and Enterpris

Meets Market Need for Metadata Generation with Increased Capacity, Affordable Licensing and the Option to Deploy Calais Within the Enterprise

Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2008





Bridging the SOA divide for deployed assets

How the Feds must rethink software design principles to better serve users abroad

Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2008





Using Enterprise 2.0 for Business Intelligence, Part 6

My previous article in this series, Using Enterprise 2.0 for Business Intelligence, Part 5, looked at how companies are using web syndication for delivering business information to business intelligence (BI) users.

Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2008





Experts Question Reach of Google Android-based G1 from T-Mobile

Analysts and other mobile and wireless experts mull the impact the Android-based G1 from T-Mobile and Google will have on the industry, as well as on the search engine.

Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2008





SOA Performance: Scaling SOA Implementations Now and into the Future

Many organizations look to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide greater business agility in the face of evolving business requirements and complex

Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2008





SOA the Platform: Part 2

Have we moved into SOA 2 without even realizing it?

Posted: Tuesday, September 23, 2008





WOA vs SOA Debate

In an interview, Loraine Lawson asked Gartner Vice President Nick Gall, who is credited with first describing Web-oriented architecture (WOA),

Posted: Monday, September 22, 2008





Java Developers to Benefit from New Release of Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development

Enhanced Tools Address Web 2.0 and Mobile Application Development Requirements

Posted: Monday, September 22, 2008





Storage in the clouds

The IT industry has had a love/hate relationship with the cloud. At the turn of the decade, businesses embraced it.

Posted: Monday, September 22, 2008





How to Architect Next-Generation Web Applications

The future of Web development lies in building Rich Internet Applications as true, standalone Web clients based on open standards such as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript that interact with the server side purely through Web services.

Posted: Monday, September 22, 2008





Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Architects

SOA governance provides the ability to quickly and continuously translate and transmit business strategy and requirements

Posted: Monday, September 22, 2008





Martin Fowler: Can SOA Be Done With an Agile Approach?

In a recent article, Martin Fowler is trying to explore the applicability of evolutionary design - a practice commonly used in Extreme Programming (XP)

Posted: Saturday, September 20, 2008





Find SOA Success With SOA Registries

SOA registries are helping companies achieve the key SOA deployment goals: organization, reuse and proper governance.

Posted: Friday, September 19, 2008





SOA, the DNA of globally integrated enterprises

According to Charles Senabulya, software group executive for IBM South and Central Africa, organisations with effective supply chains

Posted: Friday, September 19, 2008





Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle® Communications Converged Application Server 4.0

Standards-based Development and Deployment Platform Enables Rapid, Cost-effective Deployment of Innovative, Revenue-generating Services

Posted: Friday, September 19, 2008





SOA Deployments: From Pilot to Production -- Ensure Early Success

As companies continue to leverage a services-orientation to get more out of their applications, business processes and IT

Posted: Friday, September 19, 2008





SOA Skills: Hiring trends for SAP jobs - NetWeaver talent emphasized

Despite the current economic downturn, a survey of IT jobs in the U.S. and Canada shows growing demand for a variety of service-oriented architecture

Posted: Thursday, September 18, 2008





Message From the General Manager, Global Consulting Services and SOA

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has matured to the point that it is becoming part of, and in some cases the foundation

Posted: Thursday, September 18, 2008





IBM and iEnterprises Integrate Business Social Networking for CRM

Combination of CRM and Social Networking Helps Businesses Improve Sales, Marketing and Project Management Efforts

Posted: Wednesday, September 17, 2008





Zend, Adobe Team to Bring PHP to Rich Internet Apps

At the ZendCon PHP conference, Zend and Adobe announce plans to collaborate to help PHP developers better leverage Adobe’s user experience technologies.

Posted: Wednesday, September 17, 2008





Industry gets ready for ITWeb SOA 2008

Enterprise SOA conference will take place on the 28th of October at Gallagher Estate, Midrand.

Posted: Wednesday, September 17, 2008





Understanding web services attacks: A guide to preventive measures against threats

The World Wide Web has evolved to a state where software agents and computer systems autonomously interact with one another

Posted: Wednesday, September 17, 2008





Yahoo's identity crisis

Internet giant is seeking a search advertising deal with Google as it figures out which of its services can survive the new social Web

Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2008





Understanding and implementing SOA in a middleware environment

SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) is arguably one of the most misunderstood terms in the IT industry.

Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2008





SOA deployments: What actually works

After several years of hype, the results of SOA efforts have been a mixed bag. InfoWorld's SOA expert explains how to get SOA right

Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2008





Microsoft admits Exchange update goof

Microsoft is warning users after a potentially unstable update was accidentally released for Exchange Server 2007.

Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2008





Is There a Symbiosis Between SOA and DDD?

With the increased popularity of SOA, taking a central stage in the enterprise architecture, it becomes more and more obvious

Posted: Monday, September 15, 2008





Service Virtualization in a Web Services World

What happens when SOA and virtualization intersect

Posted: Monday, September 15, 2008





20 more IT mistakes to avoid

Fall prey to any one of these common IT blunders and watch your company's prospects suffer -- not to mention your own

Posted: Monday, September 15, 2008





Chrome and the Future of Business Intelligence

Panorama this week released the latest version of its gadget for Google Docs

Posted: Monday, September 15, 2008





WSO2 releases PHP library for SOA development

The developer of a library that can be used to create and consume standards-compliant Web services in PHP

Posted: Monday, September 15, 2008





SOA with Document-Centric XML Processing

This article introduces the concept of document-centric XML processing and a set of emerging document-centric capabilities

Posted: Sunday, September 14, 2008





Two SOA Projects That Can Pay For Themselves in Six Months

Service oriented architecture (SOA) could revolutionize the way we think about IT

Posted: Sunday, September 14, 2008





Building Blocks of SOA Governance

Establishing demand and supply centers is a reliable approach for SOA governance

Posted: Sunday, September 14, 2008





These online calendar services help you stay on schedule

I was busier this summer than ever before. Juggling work duties and family matters along with a personal writing project

Posted: Saturday, September 13, 2008





From A to Z - 25 Web products to boost your business

Anyone who says their business "runs itself" probably owes a great debt of gratitude to a small army of software applications

Posted: Friday, September 12, 2008





SOA the Platform

Upcoming SOA sessions at INTEROP New York make you stop and think

Posted: Friday, September 12, 2008





EMC, IBM and Microsoft Create First Web Services Interface Specification

Helping applications to interoperate with multiple Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories by different vendors, EMC Corp.,IBM

Posted: Friday, September 12, 2008





Quest for True SOA

In a new article, SOA architect Alex Maclinovsky discusses an approach for building an extensible SOA infrastructure directly supporting SOA governance.

Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2008





Microsoft Dynamics: Enabling Real-World SOA to connect your business vision with software

Microsoft Dynamics has made investments in Web services and other Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies

Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2008





AOL.com allows access to third party email services

AOL has announced that they have now enhanced their web services to allow the user to access email services directly from AOL.com.

Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2008





Special 'SQL' mooted for unstructured data

Companies dealing with unstructured data could be soon offered their own version of SQL following the efforts of seven leading software companies

Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2008





SOA World Expo - Logging for SOA

From a good programming practice to an enterprise-level solution

Posted: Wednesday, September 10, 2008





The benefits of an open source SOA

Service-oriented architectures are helping companies do everything from automate business processes to increase agility

Posted: Wednesday, September 10, 2008





SOA Vendors Focus Too Much on Integration . . .

We've all experienced the hype: "We're a SOA tool, and we're here to help!"

Posted: Tuesday, September 09, 2008





Widespread SOA Adoption Remains Low

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as an enterprise IT trend in recent years based on a desire to reduce costs

Posted: Tuesday, September 09, 2008





Utilising Web 2.0 in local government

How and why should local authorities be planning to exploit the collaborative features of Web 2.0 technologies? Stephen Dale investigates.

Posted: Monday, September 08, 2008





BizTalk Server 2009 To Arrive Before July

Microsoft on Friday described its next service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution -- BizTalk Server 2009

Posted: Monday, September 08, 2008





Twenty-five best business software tools and services

Anyone who says their business "runs itself" probably owes a great debt of gratitude to a small army of software applications and Web services

Posted: Monday, September 08, 2008





Google once reviled computer superpowers but domination is just what it is achieving

What's a nice firm like you doing ruling the world?

Posted: Sunday, September 07, 2008





5 SOA Best Practices According to IBM

A recent white paper from IBM Global Services describes the lessons applied by IBM’s Academy of Technology to achieve success

Posted: Saturday, September 06, 2008





First SOA Symposium Slated for Amsterdam

Organizers of the First Annual Service Oriented Architecture Symposium announced they will be meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 7-9, with workshops to follow.

Posted: Friday, September 05, 2008





What Cloud Computing Needs

You'd think it was the end of cloud computing.

Posted: Friday, September 05, 2008





Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow?

Plus, two horrible things your Internet service provider wants to do to make it speedier.

Posted: Friday, September 05, 2008





Infrastructure and Service Management Considerations in a SOA Environment is an Efficient Guide

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Infrastructure and Service Management Considerations in a SOA Environment" report to their offering.

Posted: Friday, September 05, 2008





Are you insecure about SOA security?

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) creates tremendous opportunities for companies to integrate across departments

Posted: Thursday, September 04, 2008





Wall Street Beat: Yahoo Slumps, Strategic M&A Continues

As economic worries battered tech stocks in a brief post-Labor Day week, Yahoo hit a 52-week low, Oracle continued its buying spree

Posted: Thursday, September 04, 2008





Oracle Plans ClearApp Acquisition, Strengthens SOA Management Portfolio

Oracle on Tuesday announced its plans to acquire ClearApp , a California-based company that develops software

Posted: Thursday, September 04, 2008





How Service Providers Can Harvest Value from SOA Investments with BPM

Service providers are faced with the challenges of launching new services, combining operations and managing the migration of customers from legacy to NextGen.

Posted: Wednesday, September 03, 2008





Working With SOA: Pattern Relationships

Design patterns have been part of the IT world for many years.

Posted: Tuesday, September 02, 2008





Does Your Organization Have the Skills to Use SOA?

If your company is considering SOA, there are many issues and challenges that need to be addressed in order to improve the chances

Posted: Tuesday, September 02, 2008





IBM Says It Will Add 15,000 Jobs

IBM, which has made a series of small layoffs since last September, said it plans to add 15,000 jobs worldwide this year

Posted: Tuesday, September 02, 2008





Introducing WS-Transaction Part 1

In July 2002, BEA, IBM, and Microsoft released a trio of specifications designed to support business transactions over Web services.

Posted: Tuesday, September 02, 2008





SOA Testing eKit: SOA Testing eBook, whitepapers, analyst reports, videos

The notion of "service assurance" is a critical factor for achieving Service-Oriented Architecture success, business agility and confidence

Posted: Monday, September 01, 2008





Business Process Management (BPM) Market Shares, Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008-2014

Research and Markets has announced the addition of WinterGreen Research, Inc.'s new report "Business Process Management (BPM) Market Shares, Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008-2014"

Posted: Monday, September 01, 2008




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